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Walter Slaje
Austrian indologist and librarian

Walter Slaje

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Austrian indologist and librarian
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Walter Slaje (born 17 June 1954 in Graz) is an Austrian Indologist.

Life

Slaje was librarian at the University Library of Graz. In 1983 he received his doctorate from the University of Vienna, where he received his Habilitation in 1993. Since 1995 he has been Professor of Indology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. In 2000 he was elected to the Board of Helmuth von Glasenapp - Foundation (Mainz). In 2001 he was an expert of Indological Commission in the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz, since 1 January 2011. He is a member of the Commission since 2003 its chairman. On 21 June 2002 he was a corresponding member, November 5, 2010 as a full member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur elected. He is director of the decorated hall at the University Center for historiography and intellectual culture of Kashmir Academy of Sciences and Literature (Mainz). For the functioning period between 2010 and 2011, he became the first manager, for the period from 2012 to 2014 and from 2015 to 2017 to 1. Chairman of the German Oriental Society elected (DMG). From 1998 to 2009 he worked as a division of the publisher (Indology and Tibetology) of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (ZDMG).

Works

  • zus. mit N. Rastegar: Uto von Melzer (1881–1961); Werk und Nachlaß eines österreichischen Iranisten. Wien: Verl. d. Österr. Akad. d. Wiss. 1987 ISBN 3-7001-0804-4
  • Katalog der Sanskrit-Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Sammlungen Marcus Aurel Stein und Carl Alexander von Hügel). Wien: Verl. d. Österr. Akad. d. Wiss. 1990 ISBN 3-7001-1284-X
  • Śāradā: deskriptiv-synchrone Schriftkunde zur Bearbeitung kaschmirischer Sanskrit-Manuskripte; auf der Grundlage von Kuśalas Ghaṭakharpara-Gūḍhadīpikā. Reinbek: Wezler 1993 ISBN 3-88587-016-9
  • Vom Mokṣopāya-Śāstra zum Yogavāsiṣṭha-Mahārāmāyaṇa: philologische Untersuchungen zur Entwicklungs- und Überlieferungsgeschichte eines indischen Lehrwerks mit Anspruch auf Heilsrelevanz. Wien: Verl. der Österr. Akad. der Wiss. 1994 ISBN 3-7001-2133-4
  • Medieval Kashmir and the Science of History. [The University of Texas at Austin, Madden Lecture 2003-4]. Austin 2004.
  • Upanischaden; Arkanum des Veda. Aus dem Sanskrit übersetzt und hrsg. Frankfurt/M: Verlag der Weltreligionen 2009.
  • Néti néti; On the meaning of an Upaniṣadic citation of some renown in Hindu texts and Western minds. [AWL. Abhandlungen der Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse. 2010, 4.] Mainz 2010.
  • Suum cuique; Zur ideengeschichtlichen Verankerung einiger indischer Gewaltphänomene. [AWL. Abhandlungen der Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse. 2012, 3.] Mainz 2012.
  • Trimūrti; Zur Verwandlung eines inklusivistischen Dominanzbegriffs in eine monotheistische Trinitätslehre. [AWL. Abhandlungen der Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse. 2012, 4.] Mainz 2012.
  • Kingship in Kaśmīr (AD 1148‒1459); From the Pen of Jonarāja, Court Paṇḍit to Sulṭān Zayn al-‛Ābidīn. Critically Edited with an Annotated Translation, Indexes and Maps. [Studia Indologica Universitatis Halensis. 7.] Halle 2014. ISBN 978-3-86977-088-8
  • Bacchanal im Himmel und andere Proben aus Maṅkha. [AWL. Veröffentlichungen der Indologischen Kommission. 3.] Mainz 2015. ISBN 978-3-447-10456-2
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